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I really like shooting with the big Mamiya 7ii. I like the big negatives, I like the 6×7 format: not too long like 35mm, and not too much like hard work like the 5×4. I like the shallow depth of field and smooth fall off you get with medium format, and I like the fact that you have to be fairly conservative with your film, 10 frames per roll. The mamiya lenses are razor sharp and you can generally tell […]

I found a load of negatives from the 80’s recently as we were tidying up. I always knew I still had them somewhere as I could vaguely remember pictures around that time, but not all of them. It’s interesting though looking at stuff that’s nearly 30 years old. In fact it’s a bit mad. The same themes come though more or less; friends (not all here anymore, sadly); 2 dimensional landscapes; pictures from moving cars, general stuff. Most things from now were there then, bar seagulls […]

Something a bit different. My better half organised a week long pop- up Art Hub over at the Chelmsley Wood town centre in an un-let shop a couple of weeks ago. It was under the B37 Project banner (it’s on Facebook if you search for it). B37 Projects aim is to support local projects in art, food and the environment. As part of it she pestered me to do something. In the end we gave out 20 disposable cameras to people […]

Another infrequent post from down South. I’ve been slowly working through photographs and I’ll post some more over the next few weeks. I’ve said before that living in a place lends a very different viewpoint than a quick stopover or even a week long holiday. Subjects that initially seem interesting or important dissolve away as you become part of the landscape that you are living in. I’ve seen this photo before, not as an actual photograph, but as a view from behind […]

Following on from my last post, I sometimes use a collection of images from other photographers as a way of explaining a mood or a feel that I’m after. I haven’t managed the social media step to Pinterest, so a crumpled sheet of printed A4 paper tends to be the means. Invariably they include the likes of Lillian Bassman and Ellen Von Unswerth, and to a much lesser extent, male photographers. I tend to think we’re most often focussed on […]

Another daylight session from back in February. In photography I’m generally not one for complicating things with too many variables. The subject, a simple location (a room with somewhere to stand, sit or lie), two cameras (one with a 50mm on the front, the other with something different), Tri-X in both and a handheld meter. And daylight. Doesn’t even really need to be much of that around. I suppose I could reduce it further and have only one camera, and then […]

Haven’t posted for a while, but have amassed some stuff recently. Back in the UK for a while last month, so came back with rolls and rolls of exposed film (Portra mostly) to get developed at Peak Imaging. I think it’s technically possible to get film developed here, but it has to be sent to Chile, so forgetting the long turn around, I’m not 100% I’d get it back. Anyway whilst in the UK I managed to get […]

Hotel Del Almagro, Santiago, Chile. August 2015. Southbound. Travelling for work is very different to travelling for fun. It generally feels like it’s done to you, rather than you being part of it. And when you get to your destination things look pretty much the same as where you departed from: beds are beds, chairs are chairs, sofas are sofas (comfortable, lumpy, too small, too big). Food is reasonably similar, variations of meat, fish and vegetables. Light fittings are well, […]

Oddly, posting on the 29th February seems right after looking at the date of my last post (December 31st). I’ll try harder to post more regularly. I spent a few hours in the company of Mia Liberum recently, a model who combines art nude with anonymity. I quite like the anonymity, it’s a way of both de- eroticising nude photography and eroticising it. Without the eye contact you (as a viewer) don’t get the full story, but can fill in […]

As the title says, Happy New Year! Apologies for the lack of posting it’s been fairly hectic since Berlin what with going overseas again. Berlin was good fun: flashbacks on the walking tour after eating too much currywurst and drinking berliner beer, but what a city, definitely going back. I’ll be overseas again off and on throughout 2017, but will post pictures as they come through. I’ll be in the Falklands in the South Atlantic, so should be interesting subject […]